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Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:55:55 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Erin Kellyhttp://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-the-dunwich-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-140512
Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:09:15 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=91643#comment-140512Well said, RG. I don’t think your “Unrelated” fact is too terribly unrelated; it’s really unfortunate that a lot of brilliant creators (in any field) don’t get the monetary compensation or respect they deserve while they’re still breathing. That being said, others have proven that the minute their head gets just a tiny bit inflated, their work turns to sh*t, so maybe Lovecraft took one for the team on this one.
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Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:58:37 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=91643#comment-140510Yeah, it’s a bit useless to critique Lovecraft on technique. He’s what I would call a literary “specialist,” and for some reason, I think of him more as a dark impressionist painter. Almost like the literary version of the artists who painted those old smoke-damaged oil paintings of seascapes that you’d find in somebody’s grandparents’ house. Vivid, lurid words, but which built a frame around the essence of his creatures.

Sure, I get criticizing an adaptation because it tends to emphasize the camp value, but not the stories themselves. Some writers transcend critique by going so gracefully out onto the farthest limbs. They can’t help but make an impression that way, not because they did alright at everything, but because they did so spectacularly well at one thing in particular.

Unrelated: The fact that H.P. Lovecraft died such a poor man honestly makes me tear up every time I think about it.

]]>By: Juliushttp://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-the-dunwich-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-140365
Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:25:55 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=91643#comment-140365It strikes me as sad that Lovecraft can be considered boring for leaving some things to our imagination.
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Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:13:27 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=91643#comment-140262The best payoff on a Lovecraft creature I can think of is in “Cast A Deadly Spell”
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Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:40:56 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=91643#comment-140209One thing that I think informed this movie, and may account for some of the not-quite-Lovecraftian stuff going on there, is that it draws on the 1960’s & 70’s ‘occult revival.’ That thing Dean Stockwell is doing with his hands, for example- that’s straight out of Aleister Crowley. Unfortunately, ‘authentic’ occultism is just as hard to make good film out of as Lovecraft’s stuff is, so when you combine the two….well, you get this.
]]>By: bobbilyheadedcathttp://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-the-dunwich-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-140176
Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:20:55 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=91643#comment-140176The whole point of Lovecraft not explaining his horrors is so the reader makes the horror their own. I understand most people these days are a little lacking in the imagination department (most of the people here will be exemptions to this rule I would guess), but it seems to me you missed the point around that. You’re definitely right about the movies though, as most of them are horrid (and not in a good way :P).
]]>By: Erin Kellyhttp://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-the-dunwich-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-140174
Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:08:15 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=91643#comment-140174This is wickedly coincidental, since my husband and I just watched this film this morning. Well, half-watched. Eeegghh… It was on in the background while we worked. Ok, we only turned our heads when there were parts with moaning. (Which was actually quite a lot.)
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